Worzel_Gummidge
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2 years, 7 months agoWorzel_Gummidge's comment on:
Deep Ellum Brewing Co. gets zoning go-ahead from city of Dallas
Wineries have an exemption too. I.e. they sell at the winery.
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2 years, 9 months agoWorzel_Gummidge's comment on:
Restaurant review: Maximo Cocina Mexicana in Dallas
Best thng at this restaurant is the wine list. A paradigmatic example of the old adage "small but well chosen". Gruner Veltliner and Torrontes both among the whites.
That's the Maguire knowhow at work.
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2 years, 10 months agoWorzel_Gummidge's comment on:
Burger review: Ye Ole Butcher Shop in Plano
The Elk is great. Cheese is yellow pus (not cheddar). The dessert pies, home made by the wife, are "simply too profound to share"!
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2 years, 10 months agoWorzel_Gummidge's comment on:
Restaurant review: La Carreta Argentina in Dallas' Oak Cliff
The empanadas we ordered weren't too salty, they were all salt!
The pizza is no longer what it used to be. The chimichurri was parsimoniously (parsleymoniously?) sprinkeled here and there. It used to be encased in an infinity pool of cheese.
As Lloyd Bentsen might have said: I went to Don Panza, I ate at Don Panza, I knew Don Panza. This is not Don Panza.
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2 years, 11 months agoWorzel_Gummidge's comment on:
Restaurant review: The Meddlesome Moth in Dallas
If you havn't been for dinner, you haven't been. The lunch menu is the dinner menu's bullemic half-cousin. No fish 'n chips, marrow bones, wabbit pie, etc. Its when you try this menu you realize that the MM is a whole new category of restaurant in Dallas - the authentic Gastropub.
Only two drawbacks -- Wine list is thin and, the main one: It's too darn noisy. Double check your business partner's notes as to what you agreed to at lunch. I bet he heard different from what you said!
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3 years agoWorzel_Gummidge's comment on:
Chasing down a Mister Softee ice cream truck at a stop in Richardson
TG: I LOVE ice cream! That is why I don't touch the pus brigade.
Artificial vanilla = fake vanilla.
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3 years agoWorzel_Gummidge's comment on:
Chasing down a Mister Softee ice cream truck at a stop in Richardson
"Worzel, you should try a Fudgesicle."
Nancy: Is that an overweight unicicle? Will it conflict with my Menstrual Sicle? Could I get by with a Honda 50?
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3 years agoWorzel_Gummidge's comment on:
Chasing down a Mister Softee ice cream truck at a stop in Richardson
TG: "The chef, Juventino Avila, began to work on his own after he saw the chemicals in a soft-serve mix that came with a machine.
“I was very unhappy when I looked at the list of ingredients because I didn’t understand any of them,” he said. “Now we have come up with our own recipes and only use one chemical, a little lecithin as a stabilizer. We like to serve ice cream the way we serve our food, without chemicals.” "
in http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/23/din...
Claimed Full list of Ingredients from: http://newyork.timeout.com/articles/f...
" MR. SOFTEE
Ingredients in vanilla flavor: Milk, Cream, Cane Sugar Syrup, Corn Syrup, Whey, Mono and Diglycerides, Cellulose Gum, Natural and Artificial Vanilla Flavor, Tetrasodium Pyrophosphate, and Carrageenan.
Mono and Diglycerides: Modified fats used to hold the ice cream together. Says Arnold, “Ice cream is a foam with air bubbles stabilized by fat globules which migrate to the surface of the bubbles and agglomerate. Emulsifiers aid in this fat agglomeration process and can help increase mix stiffness.” Hungry yet?
Cellulose gum: The easier name for carboxymethylcellulose, which is used to thicken, stabilize and improve the ice cream’s mouth-feel.” Other, possibly related uses for cellulose gum is as an ingredient in both toothpaste and personal lubricants.
Natural and Artificial Vanilla Flavor: The real vanilla is extracted from the fruit of the vanilla orchid, while the artificial stuff (which is much cheaper) is synthesized, traditionally from lignin, a waste product of paper manufacturing.
Tetrasodium Pyrophosphate: Often added to ice cream to prevent grittiness and over churning, according to Arnold’s research.
Carrageenan: An all natural seaweed derivative. It prevents ice crystals from developing in stored ice cream and improves texture, says Arnold. It is used in dairy products because it has a synergistic reaction with milk and only a small amount is needed.
Air: Arnold says some ice cream truck operators may use a very high overrun, meaning there is more air in the air cream. As he explains, “Overrun is the amount of air, by volume, added to an ice cream mix during manufacture. An overrun of 100 percent means that, for every liter of ice cream base used, a liter of air has been added.” Air is free, so high overrun means high profit. But oh Mr. Softee, how could we hate you?
Read more: http://newyork.timeout.com/articles/f... "
Still love it? That's a discursive enumeration of pus.
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3 years agoWorzel_Gummidge's comment on:
Chasing down a Mister Softee ice cream truck at a stop in Richardson
TG: When you grew up you asked the question "What is it made from?" about many of the things your ignorant child palette had enjoyed. Some of them weren't as attractive any more, were they? Did you ask that about Mr. Softee "ice cream"?
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3 years agoWorzel_Gummidge's comment on:
Chasing down a Mister Softee ice cream truck at a stop in Richardson
This "ice cream" is tasteless chemical pus. Only the taste-vacuous or self interested would tout it.
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3 years agoWorzel_Gummidge's comment on:
The Place at Perry's switching to Niman Ranch beef and chops
No foie gras! No customers.
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3 years, 1 month agoWorzel_Gummidge's comment on:
2010 Côtes Du Coeur Gala draws prestigious wine experts to Dallas
"Côtes du Coeur, which means "Vintage of the Heart,""
In what language, Welsh?
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3 years, 1 month agoWorzel_Gummidge's comment on:
Whole Foods Market launches wine cork recycling program
Better still, get rid of cork as a wine sealer, period. They are so unfit for purpose.
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3 years, 1 month agoWorzel_Gummidge's comment on:
Photo gallery: Deep Ellum Pup Crawl (March 27)
I didn't sign up because the food was not specified. I suspected it would be laden with fried stuff and carbs. Looks like I was right. For this kind of event to attract people away from, say, the Katy Trail (free!) on a Saturday afternoon they need to specify the food. That would also encourage the vendors to provide something better to eat. Where's the foie gras?
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3 years, 1 month agoWorzel_Gummidge's comment on:
Photo gallery: Deep Ellum Pup Crawl (March 27)
Did the $30 include drinks?
What was the food that was served?
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3 years, 1 month agoWorzel_Gummidge's comment on:
Unique farm-centric dinner coming to Spiceman's FM 1410 Garden in Dallas October 6
The web site says October 6th.
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3 years, 2 months agoWorzel_Gummidge's comment on:
Chipotle off US 75 in Plano one of 75 stores in chain to get solar panels
"Ells has also been active in its support of the Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act (PAMTA);"
Was this editing error due to a cloud covering the sun?
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3 years, 2 months agoWorzel_Gummidge's comment on:
Full Custom Gospel BBQ reviews authentic Spanish chorizo
BBQ_Snob: Check out Bourdain's videos on Spain on YouTube. He did BBQ-style food in the show on the basque region I believe.
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3 years, 2 months agoWorzel_Gummidge's comment on:
Dallas guerrilla restaurant 48 Nights throws curve ball on next week's chef
The French for scorpion is scorpion so it must be a disguised French menu.
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3 years, 2 months agoWorzel_Gummidge's comment on:
Full Custom Gospel BBQ reviews authentic Spanish chorizo
Kirby: 1) You are confusing a recipe with a place.
2) DOC is an Italian wine authentication system. You wouldn't expect it to include a Spanish meat.
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3 years, 2 months agoWorzel_Gummidge's comment on:
Full Custom Gospel BBQ reviews authentic Spanish chorizo
"And by the way, Worzel, can we please put the sniping to rest?"
The sniping is yours Viz:
"Worzel... Instead of just dumping on this as if you are now the local chorizo expert, too, all you had to do is take 30 seconds to Google.."
I miss the humor. It sounds like an insult. Craft the same terms into different subject matter in a discussion with Kirby. Is he laughing yet?
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3 years, 2 months agoWorzel_Gummidge's comment on:
Full Custom Gospel BBQ reviews authentic Spanish chorizo
Kirby: "Certainly, you don't expect Italian sausage or bologna to be made in Italy, do you? You don't think all frankfurters or hamburgers come from Germany, or that all Polish sausage are made in Warsaw, do you?" That is the exactly the kind of descent into generic anonymity that I want to stop. Too late with bologna, cheddar, etc. but a valuable endeavor that is an emerging trend in legislation and from private groups.
The wine analogy is exact, as I said. You haven't produced any reasons why not.
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3 years, 2 months agoWorzel_Gummidge's comment on:
Full Custom Gospel BBQ reviews authentic Spanish chorizo
Kirby: "Worzel has implied a number of incorrect things, foremost of which is that all chorizo (of which there are scores of varieties, from all over Spain) has to be made from the Iberico pig"
Not me. This is in the second sentence of the original article -- and unchallenged by me, for the sake of argument.
"Worzel is also implying that Chorizo is a "brand designation" like Champagne"
Not a brand designation, but a geographical one. With that correction the analogy is exact. The same error in the law that permits plonk pushers in the US to describe their sparkling wine as 'Champagne' allows unscrupulous vendors to pass off non-Spanish Chorizo as Spanish Chorizo. I want truth-in-labeling so that consumers can make an informed decision. You should support this since... "...having worked on a pig farm in Spain and having seen how they slaughter animals, I would take a Dutch or Danish pig over a Spanish pig any day." you will be able to read the difference on the label!
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3 years, 2 months agoWorzel_Gummidge's comment on:
Full Custom Gospel BBQ reviews authentic Spanish chorizo
Billusa99: In http://www.ustimes5.com/truly_spanish... "Even lacking the Iberian pork, Palacios chorizo, either sweet or hot,"
"No slaughterhouses in Spain have won approval from American authorities. Like other Spanish companies that export pork products to the United States, Palacios must import the pork from approved slaughterhouses in other European countries. Their pork comes from Denmark,"
If only you had taken 30 seconds to read your reference before posting it...
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3 years, 2 months agoWorzel_Gummidge's comment on:
Full Custom Gospel BBQ reviews authentic Spanish chorizo
This is not Spanish chorizo, it is dutch chorizo. Are the pigs fed the acorn diet? Are they even the same breeds used in Spain? At the very least the answer must be proven to be 'yes' to both questions or product line should be treated as a cynical attempt to trade on a name.
Better to obtain the real thing the old-fashioned way. Secreate samples back from trips to Spain.
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Old Settlers’ Park and Recreation Center
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